Re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Xy

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

From which one can glean a translation into English.

On Mar 28, at 8:07 AM, Philip Friedman wrote:

> Vox audita perit, littera scripta manet
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> The heard voice perishes, the written letter remains
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Norman 
>> Sent: Mar 27, 2007 10:28 PM
>> To: xywrite@ccat.sas.upenn.edu, xywrite@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
>> Subject: Re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Xy
>>
>> At 06:49 PM 3/27/2007, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
>> Vox audit perit litera scripta manet ("The spoken word
>>>>> never stays; the written world never perishes," [a liberal
>>>>> translation, I think].)
>>>> A bit liberal, yes. "Manet" is simply "remains."
>>> And isn't it "vox audita"? Literally, The voice, heard, perishes;
>>> the word, written, remains.
>>
>> To take a slight liberty, and to turn it into the idiom it is, you
>> can add, I think, _once_ before "heard" and replace that semi-colon
>> with the conjunction, _but_. But then my Latin is almost all gone
>> now, and my dog-eared dictionary and primer don't have the lesson I
>> need. Titus Pullo where are you?
>>
>> michael norman
>>
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David Auerbach